Hewitt's legacy: a £300,000 bill for taxis on the NHS - The Independent 22nd August 2007

Junior doctors without jobs, NHS maternity units and accident and emergency departments forced to close, staff shortages and paltry pay-rises for the lowest paid among them such as nurses. Still - it's good to see that civil servants at the Department of Health have been travelling in style. Under Tony Blair's final Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, pictured above, the DoH last year spent £310,754 on taxis, £463,723 on business-class plane tickets and £3.1m on first-class train fares.

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